I’m sure you haven’t. The above mentioned anime series are some of the MOST obscure anime EVER created.

And who in the world of anime is behind this obscurity? None other than Gainax!

Have you ever heard of them?! I haven’t… that is until now. Turns out back when Gainax people were still amateurs (quite literally so,) they did this. When this animation short was played in Daicon IV, I’m guessing many eyes were aghast with shame and embarrassment at the poor quality of such amateurish project. Can you believe it? This was before they started getting paid for doing so. Such shameless candor these guys showed. Such blasphemous and heinous act of doodling if it can even be called that.

Folks, it turns out Gainax was not finished with their meddlesome act of desecrating the anime culture.

Their newest release comes in a Pandora’s box ready to unleash its wrath at unsuspecting audience and non-audience alike.

Of course, I am acting as the opener of the box but I shall take no blame.

As the name implies this show is about Panty & Stockings with Garterbelt.

Since I will not be spoiling any plot I will get to the point.

Panty and Stockings are two angels who were rejected from heaven and thus must gather (I’m not making this up) H-coins to re-enter the celestial bastion. Garterbelt, as far as I could gather, is a priest of some sort. I am guessing that since he lives in a church and we all know only priests live in churches.

Here is what I think Panty and Stockings look like, respectively.

Left: Panty, Right: Stockings

Garterbelt has a dark complexion and sports a giant afro.

You are probably wondering what this show is about. Aside from what I have mentioned (about coins and such.) I cannot tell you what this show is about. I can, however, tell you that this show is a cross between Powerpuff Girls and one of those avant-garde cartoons from Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim segment.

As the title implies, it contains some “graphic elements” as shown below.

From Panty's "transformation" scene

Since this show is available on Crunchyroll, an anime streaming site, you should all check it out.

Despite me poking fun at Gainax, this one’s another looker as expected.

Up next, I draw an actual human figure. . . depicted as a 4 sided polygon.

First up is Suruga Kanbaru from Bakemonogatari or Monster Story in English. Some might translate this as Ghost Story, just so you can do the ghoSTory thing with it like the Japanese title, which is an amalgamation of the Japanese BAKEMONO (monster) and MONOGATARI (story/tale,) hence the “bakeMONOgatari.”

The original image was a screenshot from the anime. I just loved her expression in this scene where she was complimenting herself.

Since I still have trouble drawing anime eyes, this shot was perfect. (Oh, those are supposed to be bandages on her left arm.)

After a somewhat successful attempt, I decided to look for an image that contained the entire human figure for extra challenge.

Here is Fura Kafuka also from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

Fura’s head had to be redone several times to actually match the body due to an unexplained quantum shift during initial sketch attempt. There are obvious eraser marks as will be noticeable in other future sketches.

Sketch Attempt #3

Having felt the pangs of utter failure at my first full body sketch, I made another attempt with a different picture and pose.

This one felt easier for some reason and fortunately proportions were much better this time.

It seems possible that spring/fall outfits are easier to draw than winter ones.

Sketch Attempt #last

Now feeling somewhat satisfied with my possibly final attempt at drawing, I went back to my roots and did Fura’s face.

I hope you enjoyed the show.

Please join me next time when I attempt to make nuclear fusion more practical for home use.